If you want to stir up some discord in your household, I recommend Christopher Hitchens's "Why Women Aren't Funny."

Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about.

The chief task in life that a man has to perform is that of impressing the opposite sex, and Mother Nature (as we laughingly call her) is not so kind to men. In fact, she equips many fellows with very little armament for the struggle. An average man has just one, outside chance: he had better be able to make the lady laugh. ... Women have no corresponding need to appeal to men in this way. They already appeal to men, if you catch my drift.

Hitchens follows Kipling in attributing the relative lack of humor to childbirth:

She who faces Death by torture for
each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must
not swerve for fact or jest.